#43 Diana Fleischman: The Psychology of Disgust and Mate Selection
Dr. Diana Fleischman completed a PhD in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, US, under the supervision of David Buss. She is currently a senior lecturer of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, as well as a member of the Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology group there.
In this episode, we talk about the different types of disgust in human psychology (pathogen, sexual, and moral); sex differences in pathogen and sexual disgust; the compensatory behavioral prophylaxis hypothesis, and the role of progesterone in sexual disgust in women; and parent-offspring convergence and divergence in mate preference.
Link to podcast vesion (Anchor): https://tinyurl.com/yyg9znzs